From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, ...

Britain's poet laureate published an anti-war poem Thursday titled "Regime Change," in which death moves through Iraq, destroying historic sites. The 22-line poem by Andrew Motion is largely cast as a ...

A group of British stars – including Joanna Lumley, Samantha Morton and Lindsay Duncun – have set poems to music for a new charity album. Words For You features 27 poems, and will raise money for I ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Another death. Another funeral. Another friend taken too early by that cruel, smarmy bastard – ...

Students at the University of Manchester painted over a poem by Rudyard Kipling because of what they describe as the British author’s imperialistic and racist writings, replacing it with a poem by the ...

“Achilles,” by Carol Ann Duffy, inspired by David Beckham’s Achilles’ tendon injury: “Myth’s river – where his mother dipped him, fished him, a slippery golden boy flowed on, his name on its lips.

According to the magazine, who made Taylor its cover star of the January 2018 issue, the exclusive poem, “The Trick to Holding On,” reflects the “timely subject of reinvention and moving on.” Right ...

THE British Museum has been slammed for releasing a “self-loathing” poem about racism in the UK. To mark National Poetry Day, actor Elander Moore performed his poem The Ballad of Joe Bloggs, which was ...